The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Ne maie þe venime voide ne expelle
                                
                                  The pipes of his longes gan to swelle [Points from Boccaccio, differently turned (X. 13, 12).] 
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                                  And euery lacert in his breste adowne
                                
                                  Is schent wiþ venim and corrupcione
                                
                                  Him gayneþ neyþer for [to] gete his life
                                
                                  vomet vpwarde ne donewarde laxatif
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                                  All is to-bruston þilke Region
                                
                                  Nature haþe no dominacion. [Points from Boccaccio, differently turned (X. 13, 12).] 
                                
                                  And certeinly. þer nature wil nouȝt wirche
                                
                                  ffare wele Phisike go bere þe man to chirche
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                                  This all and some þat Arcita most deye [X. 12.] 
                                
                                  ffor whiche he sendeþ after Emelye [X. 37, 51.] 
                                
                                  And Palamon þat was his cosine dere
                                
                                  ¶ Than seide he þus as ȝe schal after here
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                                  Nouht may þe woful speret in myne herte [X. 54-5.] 
                                
                                  Declare a pointe of al my sorwes smarte
                                
                                  To ȝow my lady þat .I. loue moste
                                
                                  Bot .I. be-queþe þe seruise of my goste [X. 64.] 
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                                  To ȝowe a-boue euery creature
                                
                                  Sen þat my life may no longer dure
                                
                                  Alas þe woo alas þe peynes stronge [X. 102.] 
                                
                                  That .I. for ȝowe haue suffred. and so longe
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                                  Alas þe deþ alas myne Emelye [X. 103] 
                                
                                  Alas departyinge of owre compaignie
                                
                                  Alas myn hertes queene Alas my lif
                                
                                  Mine hert-is lady endere of my lif
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                                  What is þis werlde what axed men to haue
                                
                                  Nowe wiþ his loue nowe in his colde graue
                                
                                  Alon wiþ-owten any compaignie
                                
                                  ffare wele my swete foo myne Emylye
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                                  And soft take me in ȝoure armes tweye ['I await the last kisses from thee, oh dear spouse' (X. 65).] 
                                
                                  ffor þe loue of god and herken what .I. seye
                                
                                  .I. haue here my Cosin Palamon [folio 35a]  [X. 60-2.] 
                                
                                  Had strif and rancoure mony a day agone
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                                  ffor loue of ȝowe and for my Ielousye
                                
                                  And Iubiter so wisse my sowle gye

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 79
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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